#which happens next month

[lgbtlunaverse]

the wangxian + a-yuan "dads with an adopted son" thing is fine and enjoyable in fanfics honestly but I think we as a fandom are really not utilizing the idea of all of them in unconventional familial structures enough. Like, canonically it wasn't so much that wwx was a-yuan's guardian as that a-yuan was being raised collectively by the wens and wwx was adopted INTO the larger wen family. And lwj got attached to him through that. A-yuan just has these very attached weird uncles/older cousin figures that aren't related to him by blood at all but keep sticking around.

Just think of a modern AU with a lot less death where lwj does as he does in canon and keeps showering a-yuan in gifts as much as he can and when wwx is like "aiyah lan zhan you're gonna spoil him. Not everyone is as rich as you! What's his family supposed to say if they can't buy him all the stuff you do?" lwj just goes "Hm". And from then on out every year once a-yuan's birthday is near the extended Wen family members (well. the ones that are invited that is. No one wants wen chao at a birthday party) wakes up to a wechat payment from lwj.

Random wen cousin number 6 texts granny like

cousin 6: i just got 400 yuan????

granny: oh that's just wangji

cousin 6: i've never met this guy in my life???

granny: he wants you to buy a-yuan a nice birthday present!

cousin 6: how does he know my bank account???

#mdzs #lan wangji #wei wuxian #wen yuan #lan sizhui #granny wen #wangxian #i just don't think we're thinking enough about wangxian as nonconventional family to a-yuan enough #lwj leaving early on chinese new year's eve to go to a party over at the wens??? hilarious #wen siblings move in with granny to care for her and help with a-yuan. wwx crashes at their place for months #eventually lwj is there more days than not. the white wash cycle is like 70% his clothes #granny sleeps in the room next to wwx's and once wangxian happens #she sometimes very pointedly goes well!! i'm gonna go to the park!! for about an hour! which means I WON'T BE HERE. *wink* #as always when talking about underrated dynamics i am not hating on anyone for writing what they want. merely exploring concepts i enjoy

[iridescentoracle]

i am so obsessed with how like. taken as read the ot3 are at this point. like on the one hand it feels like they've been building up to this for ages but on the other hand it kind of feels like i blinked and we skipped right past some Major Turning Point where everything got spelled out and we're just already in firmly Established Relationship-land. obviously tarvek is too well-protected for anyone to assassinate openly, look how angry his boyfriend and girlfriend are at the idea of anyone threatening him. at this point i'm half-convinced agatha's just going to refer to her boyfriends in passing to someone else and no one's even going to comment on it until van finds out twenty pages later and immediately starts making everyone pay up

#girl genius #i just. the matching frowns. tarvek's deliberately-foppish not-quite-innocent shit-eating grin and folded hands #i'm obsessed with this panel i'm obsessed with this page i'm obsessed with this entire week's comics #and everything that everyone has chosen to say about these three since. man i don't even remember. october? #when was the comment about albia worrying colette will join the polycule i forget #i mean and also everyone has said about these three ever. violetta telling gilvek to stop flirting lives in my head rent free #but the entire last month has just been. i am Reeling what has HAPPENED #i was ready to live off the group hug for the next YEAR and every comic then has felt like a brand new brick???? #except for krosp and norville's grand adventure which. well that also felt like a set of bricks but very different ones #also i'm only half-convinced bc a) agatha *is* awfully good at big dramatic speeches #and it's still hard to imagine the Big Relationship(s) Upgrade(s) happening without one #b) it also feels extremely plausible that instead of agatha talking about her boyfriends to a third party #gil or tarvek will refer to *their* boyfriend to agatha (who will not comment on that until van finds out twenty pages later etc) #anthyding can hadplen etc and it feels so much like suddenly it already has. what timeline are we IN #sarah don't look #nyquil don't look

[hoofpeet]

I'd probably have to read the printed version and web version back to back at some point to note all the differences but... ough

#sorry i'm going to be excited about this comic for the next month #nofna #okay having finished this now-- #and sorry if this doesn't make sense to anyone who's completely unfamiliar with this comic in advance- #the 'popcorn ending' (printed version) is nice to see but i think the web version hits harder. if that makes sense #so i'm kinda tied on which ending i 'prefer'- i think both are good though #also considering i've read the web version a good 4-5 times and the printed version only once- i probably can't make that judgement yet #easy answer- i do like Nutsedge :] so it's nice to see the ending where nothing bad happens to her #but also- NT suddenly becoming a greenie-esque villain out of nowhere felt a little jarring #as well as SV suddenly turning a corner and becoming a 'good guy' (arguable)- considering the first three books are about #/him being too stubborn to change or accept any outside worldviews . Him suddenly coming to his senses felt out of place #<- probably biased because i like characters being bitter to the end and ultimately destroyed by their own hubris #the web version is probably‚ objectively‚ a bit better #but - #(spoilers- if you're planning to drop ~70 bucks on getting these books) #the conceit of SV actually perfecting his style‚ using it once‚ and then immediately getting tooth-brained- was pretty cool #assuming it's meant to parallel him spending months tormented by trying to perfect it while something's still missing- #and then dying before he can narrate it to the audience‚ so that we never know what he figured out. #hard to articulate these thoughts but tl;dr- popcorn ending also had a lot to think about

[linusbenjamin]

The Walking Dead 4.16 — A

#the walking dead #twdedit #twdgif #horroredit #gun tw #rick grimes #glenn rhee #maggie rhee #nikolatexla #there are no words to describe twd #i'm enjoying every character every plot twist and every episode #in the end it always makes me say 'what tf did i just watch??!!' #it's been a month since i watched this episode and things that happened afterwards in the next season #which made me go like 'what kind of cult we're fucking innnn??'

[kyouka-supremacy]

Me the next manga chapter: Okay can we skip everything else and get directly to the cool sskk scene

#Unless the manga doesn't follow the anime the next chapters are going to be so boring ;;;;;; #Like. Not really. Of course reading the manga will still be enjoyable & insightful and it's probably a better medium compared to the anime. #But there will be a loss of enjoyment for not knowing what's going to happen next... #Especially since one has to fill the time between one chapter and the other which is one month. #What else is it to do if one already knows what's going to happen #Read another manga ig #sskk #shin soukoku #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd s5 #mine

[lunarharp]

"Found out" set in kind of a made-up chapter where the girls are in trouble, or something.

#witch hat tag #orufrey #i hate having a strong cinematic image in your mind for months..working hours on it..& at the end looking you have to be like “Sure. :/" #i'm especially unsatisfied with the beginning and the end and how i can't get eyebrows to work as i want #but i dont care any more... this is probably the comic that has given me the most trouble ever i just dont care #i barely even care whatsoever if anyone even sees this..Ugh..but at least i can move on to the next era now #i'm just annoyed i cant get out good enough my image of qifrey flinching bc he thinks oru will hit him but then he is not hit #i feel like sensei will do something along these lines. i want to see what she will do. #there are also other variations i have in my mind. i just want to know #i just don't want it to happen with qifrey on his deathbed or something. but it possibly will. I DONT EVEN KNOW. #i have another very cinematic image in my mind for something sort of along those lines which i will do soon. it never ends... #btw after this is probably my fics. yeah.... i think it has to be my fics. jasmine sort of goes along these lines #i need that space for dialogue. look - i'm a writer. this is HARD for me. so i am really glad i had the space and freedom of words #to process all the feelings. but i tried to get something out in a quick visual space too. <- me defending myself to myself at cai court #anyway going along the lines of 'Jasmine' - they talk this out and argue and cry and oru pushes the hat at him and tells him #why not just erase every memory i have of you then. That would be easier for us all wouldn't it? #they kiss and sob and kiss and lie outside in the flowers for many hours in that one. and then there's 'Deep End' where it turns out #way way way way more time and words is needed for this actually and that's upsetting for everyone. #the destruction of the hat is certainly another path to take. Can you make this work without that hat going up in flames? #something you have always had and have been clinging to will have to be destroyed. You have to lose something now. This is the crux qifrey #I CANT GET IT OUT IN ONE COMIC!!! I CANT DRAW IT OUT!!!! I NEEDED THOSE FICS!!!! PRAISE WORDS!!!! whatever im going to have dinner now

[cracklewink]

some small refs I made for my oc, Despair's End Terminal Namicha! (pronounced with a hard ch). I couldn't decide whether the black or blue outline was better

edit: I FORGOT THE I IN TERMINAL

#character design #magical girl #robot oc #robot girl #android oc #original character #im planning a one shot comic for her but i have to work on my portfolio like the next two months so who knows when thatll happen #but yeah she is like a robot who is sentient but has no free will and she wanders the universe seeking to end all despair for robots. which #so she appears to like dying or despairing AI/robots/androids/drones/whatever to grant their wishes #she grants wishes using magic that lets her just edit the laws of the universe as if shes editing code or a computer program #i have alot of feelings about robots

[laniemae]

the purge march has just surpassed bring it on in terms of views

#milgram #amane momose #fuuta kajiyama #she already surpassed Mahiru in tihtbilwy and now bring it on #And Haruka’s next on the chopping block with weakness #The next mv after that is Muu’s after pain which has 3.8 m views so it’ll take quite a while if tpm is gonna surpass that #But I can’t believe soon enough tpm is gonna become the 4th most viewed video on the channel #And it only came out 2 months ago #And double is heading fast to 1m #But it feels kinda weird how tpm blew up quicker than double considering what happened to meme #And then there’s Shidou with triage who’s only at 875k views which came out 7 months ago and has already been surpassed by cat #I feel bad for him #And even going back to the whole point of the post tpm has a lot more likes than bio despite having almost the same view count

[kaiserouo]

Good Titan Wizard studying classical physics

#when i drew this one phrase came in my mind #“bite more than you can chew” #which will be what would happen if i actually do proper coloring #why do i keep doing lineart #help me #the next rendered piece would probably be 3 months away lol #destiny 2 #destiny guardians #destiny titan #destiny 2 art #my art

[adanaac]

love to do wiki work. hate doing it. love hating it. hate loving it.

(my fun little js project that im way too proud of. i love to click buttons)

#i have to keep stopping myself from going on 2 hour research tangents on what exactly byakkos fit is #and when exactly china invented the four gods (somewhere between 2000BC and 1 kajillion BC) #“why do u do this stuff if ur always bitching about it” well u see i love loving it. #also “well someone else will probably do it” was also the attitude i had in 2018 about both translation and the wiki #and then fuck all happened in the next 3 years which is why im here now #and also bitching about it is my love language <3 would never bitch about something i dont love #anyway my life has just been working on the wiki for the past month i think im a husk of a human being

[strayklds]

bang chan lollapalooza doodles <3

#bang chan #staysart #skz fanart #stray kids #usersa #meltracks #izzy idt you track a tag but im summoning u #myart #one day when i draw consistently ill revamp my old art blog so i can post stuff directly there without idk. cringing #but thats not happening any time soon... maybe next month or september.... anyways #click for better quality etc etc etc you know the drill #decided i was never gonna color these but i like them enough as is i think #also i think i switched which pen i was using halfway through cause my lines got so much darker for the other two than the first one i did

[not-poignant]

how do you have the time to write all this stuff /and/ play video games etc etc at the same time? Is it just that you write insanely fast after all these years? I have a lot of hobbies, writing being one of them, and i have such a hard time juggling them lol.

Hi anon,

So, real talk -> The reality is I don't have the time to write and play video games at the same time most of the time.

I haven't written anything since the 17th. I haven't started the next Palmarosa chapter. I'm on day 8 of not having opened a new document and writing anything.

I've edited a whole two chapters (which I suspect I have to go over again) and I've responded to some comments and asks, and that's it. No writing, no growing wordcount, I've been stagnating / not doing anything due to burnout since the 17th (I know the date because I have a giant whiteboard of completed chapters next to me).

Honestly, most of the time I don't actually have the time to read, play video games, watch television, or movies. I am too busy writing/editing/sleeping. With Toby in the mix, the small amount of media I was consuming has vanished.

Sometimes I can play certain video games while writing - these are usually low stakes video games I can endlessly put on pause and then play for five minutes at a time, like Dorfromantik and Garden Galaxy. Any kind of idler video game, like Havendock is also good for this.

Anon, you can't have a lot of hobbies and actually keep up with them and write the way I do, and therapist/s wouldn't recommend you drop all of your hobbies to write the way I do anyway. Trust me.

I had two things I wanted to start learning this year, and I haven't started learning them yet. I don't have the capacity. I had a therapist gently point out to me that if I was always at 100 in terms of output, how can I have any energy leftover for self-work and processing? The answer is: I don't. (That's actually why I've spent a week playing video games, and if anything it's just reminded me that my capacity is still at 100 and this is going to take a bit of concerted decompression).

Most of the time it's not normally quite this overwhelming. Toby has just maxed me out because he's a high energy dog who is also a puppy with Separation Anxiety, and there's no quick or easy fix for that. But most of the time it's still very intense. The list of shows I really want to watch, and books I really want to read, is very long. But I often don't have time to indulge in those things because I'm too busy writing.

A lot of the time I don't actually have the time to reread my own fics anymore, outside of editing.

This year was meant to kind of tackle that more decisively but you know then we got a puppy so... not so much.

But yeah anon, there is no 'how do you do this and do this' - you don't do one of those things, or you do it very haphazardly, in small amounts.

I do write very fast (my wordcount is 120-150wpm), but I don't edit fast (I'd tender that editing fast for most people is a bit of an oxymoron), I don't answer asks fast (some of the longer ones take me an hour to compose), etc. And even then, writing fast is not the same as the time it takes to think out the chapter, to figure out what's happening, letting it percolate etc. A lot of my life is also just resting. I lose about 2-5 hours of every afternoon to sleep or rest for example, where nothing productive happens. And I think one of the reasons I read so many manwha atm is that they're so easy to read comparatively, and so quick, and that's the only way I can really consume stories these days.

#asks and answers #what folks think they're seeing on the surface is often not is what is actually happening #those who track my wordcount on discord (where i update it) #will notice it's not been updated since the 17th #will i write anymore chapters between here and the end of the month? #i don't know #and if i don't #i will have to work even harder next month dsalkfjasfas #anyway yeah no most of your hard working creatives around you #cannot actually find the life-work balance that allows them to enjoy their lives and leisure time and their hobbies #even if they're writing about characters who are learning how to do those things #part of it is capitalism - it's hard to take a break when your antidepressants went up in price #(which is a broader ironic analogy to life in general)

[torgawl]

me right now

#do it for her!!!!! #i'm your biggest fan queen 😫 #SHE'S REALLY COMING NEXT MONTH SGAJAHAJJASJ #she could heal the enemies and i'd still praise her <3 #if i had a coin for everytime i deeply enjoyed a character inspired in arlecchino from comedia dell'arte i'd have two coins #which isn't much but it's funny it happened twice #arlecchino #genshin impact

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

#Good Omens season 2 #Good Omens TV #I know everyone else already shifted into this mode like a month ago and by now already know the plot of the entire show beforehand probabl #but I've been stubbornly avoiding all spoilers and anyways I had to finish DS9 which I will be doing tonight #thereupon I will die 1000 deaths and resurrect to rewatch gomens s1 one more time next week #and then next Friday I will binge the entirety of s2 all at once like a whalefall feeding frenzy and then I will EXPLODE <3 #so nice to have things to look forward to in this world. you've got to have goals you know. #good omens #Starky's Original Posts #GIVE IT UP FOR HOT REPTILE SUMMER!!!!!!!!!!! #man I've missed this and I didn't even realize it tbh...... like it turns out yes it is actually fun and engaging to watch new things #and be excited for what will happen in them #wah :') #[voices in the distance yelling at me to answer ppl's messages and do something productive/creative instead of just #wolfing down tv shows and fanfics and nothing else but luckily I am running away so so fast and they can't catch me]

[spielzeugkaiser]

kaiser, I've been low-key worried about you as you crawl your way out of the Covid Hole. How are you doing? Hopefully recovering some energy? Sending you good healing vibes from afar!

Ahh, I hope you don't mind that I answer this one publicly. First of all, aww, that is very sweet, thank you 🥺💖 I'm not gonna lie, I still struggle quite a bit with breathing and concentration, but I'm getting there! (That I'm exhausted all the time is a given, but it's always been like thay.) I'm currently working out to get my lungs back to where they should be, but I'm also currently teaching and studying and working and moving and traveling for work and- *deflates*

I miss drawing a lot and I feel really restless since I stopped. Hopefully I'll come back to it by next month - once S3 is here I'm definitely back in my clown makeup 🙈🤡

#covid really got to me #but moving is also really exhausting #and I'm teaching some uh.. I guess college classes (?) soon that I have yet to prepare for #and a paper to write #I should also hop over to the netherlands by the start of next month for a congress - I did send an abstract in for that one #and another one in six weeks #have I mentioned aaaaaa yet #also moving really sucks the life out of me #very exhausting and much to carry and build and so many ikea trips #but I still have a head like a sieve sadly so it's all a bit unorganized - which is normally not how I handle things #and I'm really :( about not drawing - it always makes me antsy because I feel the longer I stop the harder it is to start again #and I don't want to loose all my drive and just. stop one day #that has happened before and lasted for years ._______.

[hotdrinks]

not an exaggeration, once a month, right when rent is due, my apartment complex sends me a notice that is like “uhhmmm teehee..you actually owe us 1,000 additional dollars. don’t ask why :33″ and then I send them a detailed email including screenshots and time stamps of why that is not the case and they go “drats!! he got us!!!” and scamper back to their little hole underneath the roots of a big tree like “we’ll get him next month!” like if they can just catch me unawares I’ll accidentally pay them $1000

#drinks talk tag #they put a random balance on my account of $650 and keep trying to collect late fees on it #i talked to the guy at the office and was like 'this money is from nothing this should not be on my account' which he agreed with #the next month that same man called me #and said 'hey you have a balance of $650 on your account has anyone talked to you about that??' #literally you dude. you talked to me about that. #this has been going on since october it happens every actual month #i think it's because they didn't charge me rent the month my apartment was a health hazard because there was a whole bog in my bathtub #that was covered in mold and they refused to do anything about it #and now they're trying to secretly collect it #anyway the two requirements for owning a leasing company are 1. incompetent #2. evil